Islam : art and architecture / edited by Markus Hattstein and Peter Delius ; [translation from German, George Ansell [and others]

Hattstein, Markus

Cologne : Ko?nemann, 2000. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Item #404922
ISBN: 3829025580

Physical description; 639 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 32 cm. Notes; Translation of Islam: Kunst und Architektur. Includes index. Translated from the German. Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-611) and index. Contents; Islam: world religion and cultural power -- Art and culture in the Islamic world -- Syria and Palestine: the Umayyad caliphate -- Iran, Iraq and Egypt: the Abbasids -- Tunisia and Egypt: the Aghlabids and Fatimids -- Syria, Palestine and Egypt: Ayyubids, Mamluks and Crusaders -- Spain and Morocco -- The Maghreb: from Morocco to Tunisia -- Early empires of the East: Ghaznavids and Ghurids -- Central Asia and Asia Minor: the great Seljuks, the Anatolian Seljuks and the Khwarazm-Shahs -- Islamic Mongols: from the Mongol invasions to the Ilkhanids -- Central Asia: the Timurids, the Shaybanids and the Khan princedoms -- Indian subcontinent: from Sultanate to Mughal Empire -- Iran: Safavids and Qajars -- The Ottoman Empire -- Islam in the modern age. Subjects; Islamic art. Islamic architecture. Art islamique. Architecture islamique. Civilisation islamique. Islamic architecture. Islam Social life and customs. Art, Islamic History. Architecture Styles and periods Islamic.

Price: €60.00